The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD)* seeks scholarship that speaks to permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions for its 2026 Conference, "Black Phoenixing:… read more about The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance »
We invite the Duke community to join us for the 11th Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on Friday, February 20, and Saturday, February 21, 2026. The event is open to all. It begins with a Networking… read more about Post45 Grad Symposium »
The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD) seeks scholarship that speaks to permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions for its 2026 Conference, "Black Phoenixing: Dancing… read more about The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance »
The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD) seeks scholarship that speaks to permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions for its 2026 Conference, "Black Phoenixing: Dancing… read more about The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance »
This talk takes up Sylvia Wynter's engagement with cybernetics to critique the contemporary cultural fascination with AI. The talk will focus specifically on Wynter's call for a "new science of the… read more about Digital Wynter »
oin us for an engaging conversation with Moshtari Hilal, visual artist, writer, and author of Ugliness, and Dr. Paniz Musawi Natanzi of the University of Bern. Hilal's book, praised by The New York… read more about Reading and Conversation with Moshtari Hilal and Dr. Paniz Musawi Natanzi »
Employed as the "king's painter" at the royal botanical garden in Paris for almost half a century, Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701-1780) produced drawings of plants for the exclusive collection… read more about Epistemic Drawing: Madeleine Basseporte at the Jardin du roi »
Please mark your calendar! You are invited to "The Life of the Novel in a Post-Text World: A Symposium on the State of the Literary Ecosystem", Thursday, March 19th, through Friday, March 20th, on… read more about A Symposium on the State of the Literary Ecosystem »
The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), which is in its nineteenth year, offers a unique opportunity for internationally recognized faculty and young scholars to engage in sustained dialogue about… read more about The 19th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop »
Join Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús for a powerful discussion of her new book, which unearths the disturbing history and ongoing impact of "excited delirium syndrome," a fabricated medical diagnosis used… read more about Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease »
A feeling and an affliction, torn provokes a sense of woundedness and oscillation. It can describe a literal splitting of one thing into two. It can speak to a state of hesitation or indecision.… read more about Torn - Asian/White Life and Intimacy of Violence »